wish fulfillment
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noun
gratification of desires.
Psychoanalysis. the drive to free oneself from tension caused by instinctual needs, as sex.
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Origin of wish fulfillment
First recorded in 1905–10
Words nearby wish fulfillment
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Medical definitions for wish fulfillment
wish fulfillment
[ wĭsh ]
n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the satisfaction of a desire, need, or impulse through a dream or other exercise of the imagination.
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